DLA News Archive

Category: Europe and Africa

A civilian helps a soldier understand turn-in guidance while looking at an Army vehicle.

July 10, 2024

Kaiserslautern CDD team fills important role across continents

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A small Germany-based crew sits at the forefront of keeping demilitarization-required military equipment out of the hands of adversaries.

May 17, 2024

Expeditionary teams close out DEFENDER ’24 field ops

GERMERSHEIM, Germany — Agency expeditionary civilians and servicemembers share perspectives on exercise accomplishments, their teams, and visiting Germany during the largest U.S. Army-led exercise in Europe.

A shredder spits out wood fragments while personnel in safety gear observe.

May 10, 2024

DEFENDER '24 hones expeditionary skill sets

GERMERSHEIM, Germany — A collection of DLA Disposition Services expeditionary civilians and DLA Joint Reserve Force servicemembers have assembled a solid team and are developing skills together during a field exercise in Germersheim, Germany.

Man drives what looks like a forklift outdoors

May 7, 2024

Expeditionary personnel support DEFENDER ’24

GERMERSHEIM, Germany — Agency civilians and servicemembers have established field operating sites in Germany to participate in the largest U.S. Army exercise in Europe.

People erect the walls of a shipping container that turns into an office space.

April 29, 2024

Disposition personnel to support DEFENDER 2024

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Agency property disposal experts and servicemembers will soon travel to Germany to deploy and operate an Expeditionary Site Set in support of the U.S. Army’s largest exercise in Europe.

Feb. 6, 2024

Excess equipment to help build special operations capability

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A Kaiserslautern-based property disposal specialist recently went the extra mile to transfer a valuable fabricating system from Germany to a stateside customer with an important mission.

Two men look over equipment in an engineering shed.

Jan. 23, 2024

Environmentalist saves agency customer’s life

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Mike Lapine recently received the Superior Civilian Service Award for providing lifesaving response when a property turn-in customer’s heart stopped while dropping off excess material at a DLA facility in Germany in November.

Two side-by-side photos of an olive orchard and tractor, and then a burnt wasteland.

Jan. 18, 2024

Euro team rallies to support colleague’s orchard loss

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — When a DLA employee-owned generational Sicilian farm was destroyed by wildfire, the DLA Disposition Services Europe and Africa region staff came together to help replace lost olive trees.

Heike Neumann, center, holds a certificate and shakes hands with Brig. Gen. Otis C. Jones with Command Chief Master Sgt. Louis J. Ludwig on her other side

Dec. 19, 2023

Years of service ceremony honors local national employees

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — Local national employees from Defense Logistics Agency Europe & Africa, U.S. Air Forces Europe and Africa and the Defense Commissary Agency received recognition for their years in service in a ceremony hosted by the 86th Force Support Squadron at the Officers Club on Ramstein Air Base Dec. 7.

Glass flies out of an industrial shredder into a large garbage bin at a scrap yard.

Dec. 14, 2023

Demil specialists best tough-to-destroy ballistic glass

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — DLA’s Kaiserslautern-based property disposal experts recently overcame some long-term hurdles to the disposal of ballistic glass in Europe.